ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
In July 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her first major foreign policy address at the Council on Foreign Relations. She argued that the United States still needed to be a global leader, but that it had to lead in a different way than it did during the Cold War. “We will lead,” she …
Most Americans think their country is in decline. In 2018, when the Pew Research Center asked Americans how they felt their country would perform in 2050, 54 percent of respondents agreed that the U.S. economy would be weaker. An even larger number, 60 percent, agreed that the United States would be less important in the …
This past year saw a host of global challenges converging across societies and governments, with each navigating an environment of profound technological change. In the geopolitical domain, we continued to witness a return to great-power competition; to confront it requires knowledge of how we got here as well as a deep understanding of the technological …
Listen to the Podcast Transcript DAN KURTZ-PHELAN Martin Indyk has probably spent more time and energy than anyone else, certainly more than any other American, trying to find a path to peace among Israel, its neighbors, and the Palestinians. After October 7, he was one of the first people we at Foreign Affairs wanted to hear from. …
Listen to the Podcast Dan Kurtz-Phelan When Russia botched its invasion of Ukraine and the West quickly came together in support of Kyiv, Vladimir Putin’s grip on power appeared shakier than ever. Last summer, an attempted coup even seemed to threaten his rule. But today, Putin looks confident. From battlefield progress in Ukraine to the …
Listen to the Podcast DAN KURTZ-PHELAN The essay starts out by noting how contested and complicated the world is today. And so I want to start with your analysis of this pretty challenging, to put it mildly, moment in the global landscape. I don’t imagine that when you started this job almost four years ago, …
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Lawfare—using litigation to upend political leaders and causes—is suddenly prominent in both the United States and Israel. Indeed, the current corruption trial in Tel Aviv involving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cut from the same cloth as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s bid to upend Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations. Both men face charges for events that …
Expect offsetting impacts of deregulation, lower tax rates, and tariffs—but also great uncertainty. Assessments of the impacts of President-elect Trump’s economic policies are just as polarized as the political arguments of the recent campaign. Trump’s detractors provide deeply negative economic estimates of his policy statements on tariffs and immigration. The Trump camp sees only clear …